Ortom is a tyrant, three generations can't repay his loans in Benue - Suswam

Written By Idoma Television on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 | 1:37:00 PM

Immediate
past governor of Benue State, Dr. Gabriel Torwua Suswam, has decried
the rate at which his successor, Samuel Ortom obtain loans "without
anything to show for it".

Suswam stated this at Lessel community in Benue State on Sunday
where he and his wife, Yemisi Dooshima were hosted to a Thanksgiving
Service and Grand Reception by the Benue Zone 'A' Women Progressive
Forum to mark their first year out of office as the First Family of the
state.

Addressing the mammoth
crowd that thronged to receive him at the Lessel College of Education,
venue of the Grand Reception, Suswam lamented the rate of hunger and
poverty ravaging the Benue, largely due to failure of the ruling
government to live up to its responsibility by paying workers wages and
providing an enabling environment for the thriving of business.

According
to Suswam, "A government that is burdening poor market women and petty
traders with excessive taxation, but is owing workers salaries, is
actively cultivated an environment of insecurity through a dubious
amnesty programme. A government which oversees the most vicious and
wholesale looting of public funds should be chased away by the people
through the ballot.", Suswam noted.

"It
is the duty of the opposition to speak out at such a moment of
darkness; to keep quiet will only serve to surrender the entire fortunes
of this state into the hands of an insensitive regime made up of a
group of looters who have not paid any attention to the sufferings of
the people but have rather done everything to increase poverty and
misery in the land since coming into power."

"The
Ortom regime has failed on all fronts, yet it is so intolerant of
opposing views, and always quick to crackdown on its opponents, many of
whom it has thrown into detention a number of times. As governor, I
never moved against any opponent, but allowed freedom of speech. This
was the foundation upon which the 2015 elections were conducted, paving
way for the present government to come into power.

"I
will not be intimidated into silence no matter the threats. Together,
we must resist the tyranny and bad governance by this regime which has
borrowed so much that three generations ahead won't be able to repay".

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